[PATCH v2 1/3] aarch64: Re-implement setcontext without rt_sigreturn syscall
Marcus Shawcroft
marcus.shawcroft@gmail.com
Thu Apr 17 09:02:00 GMT 2014
On 1 April 2014 12:32, Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org> wrote:
> ChangeLog:
>
> 2014-04-01 Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org>
>
> [BZ #16629]
> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/setcontext.S (__setcontext):
> Re-implement to restore registers in user code and avoid
> rt_sigreturn system call.
OK, but, with reference to:
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-03/msg00594.html
would you mind adding a comment to the context recovery code spelling
out that we don;t handle kernel created contexts therefore it is safe
to assume a fixed context layout?
Cheers
/Marcus
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